Topsail Beach | Topsail Beach will once more hold a public comment period at the beginning of town board meetings.The board voted 4-0 at a special meeting Friday morning to return the public comment period to the beginning of the meeting, in a resolution brought by Commissioners Julian Bone and Grier Fleischhauer.

Wilmington | A 15-year-old special needs student was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation after he tried to enter D.C. Virgo Middle School on the city’s north side with two knives Friday, according to a news release from the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office.

The Pender County Board of Education is demanding a public apology from the Pender chapter of the NAACP, for what the board says are unsubstantiated claims of misconduct made by the NAACP chapter president late last year.